State-building, expansion and conflict

Civilization:The Persian Empire

Name: Phoebe Morris


Themes
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Political Structures and forms of governance
  • Cyrus,leader of epanding Persia, was a very promanint leader.
  • Their political structure wasn't really structured, they were very unorganized because of the size of the empire, but after many years, they finally became structured.
Empires
  • Because the Persian Empire was so vast, they decided to organize by clans not states, that way the King still had the say.
  • After they were able to organize themselves, the Persians brought organization to two other people.
  • Persia, went to war and conqured many kingdoms, making them and their army sronger.
  • Persia, after the fight with Croesus(more about the fight below), had one, if not the strongest army in the area, probably the world.
Nations and nationalism
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Revolts and revolutions
  • When Darius was king the Persians whet into a great war with Croesus, who at the time was the leader/king of the strongest empire, and defeated him, making the Persian Empire expand and gain a lot of power and noterioty.
Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
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